Panorama of the Old City of Jerusalem, looking west from the Mount of Olives across the Kidron Valley. With that in mind, let us examine if history really is about to culminate, climax, converge, or even collapse, with the arrival of the most mysterious figure in history, the Messiah. As calamities converge around us, they claim history will soon culminate with the appearance of God’s chosen emissary, who will usher in an age of peace and cooperation amongst the nations of the world. Many Christian and Muslim leaders agree with this apocalyptic assessment.

These religious leaders claim the Messiah will soon appear on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the holiest place in the world. Other features of the end times include poverty, ignorance, and religious despair and the Torah will be forgotten. Several prominent Jewish religious leaders have claimed the Messiah will arrive shortly - that he must arrive, since the times as so bad.įrom the Mishnah (post-Second Temple Period Jewish literature), we read that the era preceding the Messiah will be rife with societal corruption: “In the footsteps of the Messiah, arrogance will increase, prices will rise…the government will turn into heresy, and there will be no reproach…The meeting place of scholars will become a bordello…sin-fearing people will be detested, truth will be missing…” (Sotah 9:15). Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, August 2020Īs the world remains gripped in plagues of pandemic proportions, from billions of locusts to wildfires to storms to the coronavirus, it is easy to feel that the “end times” are close at hand. All we need is to remain strong for a little bit longer.” All the signs the prophets gave, all the signs predicted in the Gemara, the Mishnah, the Midrash, everything is taking place, one by one.

“All the great rabbis of this generation are saying that the Messiah is about to reveal himself.

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